The Making of Karafuto Repatriates
A review of The making of Karafuto repatriates, by Jonathan Edward Bull. Japan’s defeat in World War II ushered in the rapid dismantling of its…
Monthly Archives: January 2016
Calcutta, Marwaris, and the World of Hindi Letters
A review of The Bazaar and the Bari: Calcutta, Marwaris, and the World of Hindi Letters, by Rahul Bjørn Parson. The premise of Rahul Bjørn’s…
Survey: Publishing While Still in Grad School
Advisor will soon tackle the question of publishing while still in grad school. Please help us by taking this short survey, and by forwarding it widely to…
Collections in Fukuoka, Japan
A review of library collections in Fukuoka, Japan Kyushu Historical Museum 九州歴史資料館 838-0106 福岡県小郡市三沢 5208-3 Tel: +81-94-275-9575 Website Fukuoka City Library Local Collections 福岡市図書館郷土・文書資料室 814-0001…
Memory and Textualization in Early Modern Persian Ismāʿīlism
A review of The Legendary Biographies of Nāṣir-i Khusraw: Memory and Textualization in Early Modern Persian Ismāʿīlism, by Daniel Beben. At first glance, Daniel Beben’s…
The Global History of Indo-Byzantine Exchange
A review of Indo-Byzantine Exchange, Fourth–Seventh centuries: A Global History, by Rebecca Darley. Rebecca Darley’s doctoral dissertation is commendable for bringing to the limelight a…
Capitalism, Liberalism, and the British Empire
A review of Colonial Capitalism and the Dilemmas of Liberalism: Locke, Burke, Wakefield and the British Empire, by Onur Ulas Ince. Onur Ulas Ince’s dissertation…
History, Aesthetics, and Politics in Chinese Landscape Paintings
A review of Rising from a Placid Lake: China’s Three Gorges at the Intersection of History, Aesthetics and Politics, by Corey Byrnes. For specialists and…
Archives and Activism in Hispaniola
When I moved to the Dominican Republic in 2012 to conduct dissertation research on the history of Haitian migrant communities I knew I wanted to…
The Female Gaze in Contemporary Japanese Literature
A review of The Female Gaze in Contemporary Japanese Literature, by Kathryn Hemmann The Female Gaze in Contemporary Japanese Literature, written by Kathryn Hemmann, is…